# Wish-list (!object nums)

"Robert J. Brown" (rj@eli.wariat.org)
Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:34:00 PDT

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    >>>>> "aka" == aka Bastian <Patrick> writes:

        aka> Uhhh....no.  That would mean no two objects could ever be
        aka> named the same.  That would be pointless stupid and sucky.
        aka> Sorry. =)

    Actually, they could, because you could use local synonyms for global
    names, and only the globasl names would have to be unique.

    A worse problem might come from the dynamically bound reference to an
    object which might itself be dynamically created, transient in extent,
    and totally unnamed -- a "scratch" or "temp" object, if you will.

    Only the object number would serve to identify such an object.  Good
    programming would keep such a number in a variable or named constant,
    and never hard code the number literally inline.

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